million, billion...
on the advice of a friend, i have downloaded and installed trillian. it takes MSN, ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo! and puts them all into one interface program thingamabob. i'm still getting used to it but it's pretty damn neat so far. I was having a big problem with AIM -- it was really unstable and I'd get booted in the middle of a conversation and I couldn't tell if someone was ignoring me or just that i hadn't received the message.